"Using the page's name may represent a wish to retain the relationship with his male servant"
Michael Shapiro
1 of 26
"Malvolio's true character is revealed in his involuted Puritanic sensibility that allows no appetites directed outward"
Hollander
2 of 26
Malvolio is seen as the "enemy" of "the kind of theatre that Twelfth Night represents"
David Bevington
3 of 26
"Malvolio is drawn into a 'crime' of social aspiration"
David Bevington
4 of 26
The play "develops an ethic of indulgence"
Hollander
5 of 26
"Malvolio is a well suited target for satire"
David Bevington
6 of 26
"Malvolio brings his downfall on himself"
David Bevington
7 of 26
"Puritanism was a hot-button issue when Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night"
David Bevington
8 of 26
"Orsino's agonised sense of betrayal arises more from the loss of Cesario than from the loss of Olivia, a reaction that permits the audience to accept his love for Viola when her true sexuality is revealed"
Michael Shapiro quoting John Russell Brown
9 of 26
Feste is Malvolio's "nemesis" he "celebrates the age-over notion of seizing the moment of pleasure while one is still young"
David Bevington
10 of 26
The battle between "Lent and Carnival" "Carnival constantly wins the contest for our hearts"
David Bevington
11 of 26
"In Twelfth Night the spectre of death haunts the romantic protagonists' lives and loves from the start"
Kiernan Ryan
12 of 26
"Edgy satire and romantic melancholy"
David Schalkwyk
13 of 26
Characters have "to lose themselves in order to find themselves"
C.L. Baker
14 of 26
"The social and personal tensions that comedy is supposed to resolve cannot easily be despatched in a 'happy ending'"
David Schalkwyk
15 of 26
"Topsyturvydom has plenty of room for homosexual flirtation - but only till the Lord of Misrule abdicates"
Bruce Smith
16 of 26
"Their own actions provide the barriers"
Joseph Summers
17 of 26
Orsino is "a narcissistic fool"
Herschel Baker
18 of 26
Orisno is "capable of powerful feeling and of development under Viola's influence"
Roger Warren
19 of 26
Viola's "unaffected directness draws them from their affections, and reveals the positive qualities that those mannerisms partly conceal"
Roger Warren
20 of 26
The twins become and image of "the fragmentation of the self - of the way in which at their core, people are divided into a multitude of different selves"
David Schalkwyk
21 of 26
Shakespeare is concerned with "the double nature of all human beings, the fact that men and women all have something 'masculine' and something 'feminine' about them"
Marjorie Garber
22 of 26
"The most fundamental distinction the play brings home to us is the difference between men and women"
C.L. Barber
23 of 26
"The ultimate effect of Twelfth Night is to make the audience ashamed of itself"
Ralph Barry
24 of 26
Malvolio "richly deserves his exposure, and so actively co-operates in bringing it upon himself, there seems little warrant for the critical tears sometimes shed over his harsh treatment"
Barbara Lewalski
25 of 26
"Malvolio is the loneliest, trapped in a loveless solitude, unable to form any real attachment, a predicament reflected in his punishment"
David Schalkwyk
26 of 26
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"Malvolio's true character is revealed in his involuted Puritanic sensibility that allows no appetites directed outward"
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